Start with two 200l oil drums
![Image](https://i.imgur.com/rhbHJGr.jpg)
Make a cutout
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Put in some bricks, arrange them around until it looks good
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Fill with sand and clay and mold a firepit with an intake for air from the side
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Burn in the clay with a fire
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Oh yeah the 2nd drum is the chimney
![Image](https://i.imgur.com/THyU31w.jpg)
Time to try the real stuff, actual coal (coke), never seen it in my life before, this is the big villain killing the planet and now I am burning it too....
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Works.
Next time I bring out my anvil too
![Image](https://i.imgur.com/vRWOEmb.jpg)
Started working on a poker to rake coals with
![Image](https://i.imgur.com/1Mkjgo3.jpg)
Was gonna draw out this part but a sudden downpour made me stop and I had to close up shop for the day...
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I rebuilt the firepit again, by smashing the clay and sand mix and remixing it with water, also mixed in the ash. It's all good.
Second burn in
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With the hair dryer going there is no smoke from the wood fire just a heat shimmer from the chimney. And it gets steel pretty hot
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And that's where I am now. I am currently reprofiling a cheap hammer head to a more suitable weight, the 2kg sledge is a tad heavy...
![Image](https://i.imgur.com/haQrwUi.png)
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Thinking I will anneal the whole head on the forge so I can machine it, then reharden and temper. A hammer doesn't need to be super hard, especially not for smithing so I think I will temper it a bit softer than it is now. Cheaper to dress a hammer than repair an anvil.